I love this kind of discussion. I'll respond in turn, but I understand if this isn't the proper thread to continue the conversation at any great length.
One Piece is my special interest, to use a proper term. It's what I think about when my brain isn't required for anything else, and even when it is, the One Piece obsession is still churning in the background. (I'm sure that isn't unique to a forum dedicated to One Piece, but it's very true for myself. ) I've been weekly for a real long time. And I love that different people can get different levels of enjoyment out of the same story, too. I couldn't care less if someone likes to read spoilers: go for it. Read it whatever way makes you happy. I don't enjoy my stories as much, though, when I get the details outside of the actual thing, hence my intense avoidance of spoilers. (The end matters far less to me than the means. I'm here for the journey, to say it the cheesy way. I care less about how One Piece ends than I do about the years of weekly enjoyment I've gotten out of it.) I don't use any social media, so those weekly spoilers for One Piece aren't really an issue for me, but I really go out of my way to avoid anything that isn't the manga itself.
I have no real interest in the One Piece films from the get go, but I make it a point to especially avoid them more in recent years knowing that they reveal pertinent information that has yet to drop in the story. I think Kuzan having an ice replacement leg was dropped first in a film like a decade ago, right? I haven't seen the film, but that's something I happened to find out by accident. And that piece of information was only revealed in the manga last week! That's crazy! And while this is certainly a less impactful example (I'm using it 'cause it's recent), I still wish I didn't know about that leg until chapter 1080. I think it would have been cool to learn it there. I'd say, Holy cow! We're still learning stuff regarding the aftermath of Kuzan and Sakazuki's fight! That's wild! That one ain't a big deal, but I know there's some BIG info in Film Red and I avoid that stuff like the plague.
This is where I probably differ from most people who like to know what they're getting into when starting a series or a book or a movie. I like to go into everything blind, like I said: no blurbs, no trailers, no nothing. But I consume a LOT of stories. Like, seriously a lot. I typically read about two books a week, watch one or two movies at home, and go to the theater to see two or three movies as well. That's on top of keeping up with new chapters of One Piece and Chainsaw Man (I've read other manga to completion, but those are the only two I keep up with now). The best way I can put it is that I intentionally "judge a book by its cover." I look at the title of a book or the poster for a movie and check out what I think might be good. It's not so much a quantity-over-quality as it is a desire to consume a ton of stories. And heck, I read and watch things that I HOPE are bad, too. I love consuming what I find to be bad stories just as much as I love the good ones. It can be a slog sometimes, but I love seeing a bad movie or reading a bad book. And I don't mean hilariously bad. I mean a thing that's genuinely terrible. I get a lot out of pulling things apart, writing my thoughts, critiquing them, etc. The good stories shine brighter when they're pitted against the awful ones. And I totally do have directors and writers that I love and will voraciously consume anything they put out there. A lot of my reading and watching comes in this form or from something that seems similar to those I already love. But that's enough out of me. :^)